Do you like speculative fiction, or have you never read it and just want to know what all the fuss is about? Every year the Hugo and Nebula awards highlight the year's best fantasy and science fiction books, and there's no better way to explore speculative fiction than by reading the best of it. Come by the second floor to check out an award-winning book!
The Fifth Season (Hugo Award, 2016) by N.K. Jemisin
In The Stillness, every few hundred years the planet undergoes a climate-altering earthquake, creating a "Fifth Season." Jemisin explores issues of climate-change, race, class, and gender.
Redshirts (Hugo Award, 2013) by John Scalzi
Did you ever watch the original Star Trek and wonder why the guy in the red shirt always died? If so, this book is for you.
The City and the City (Hugo Award, 2010) by China Mieville
Mieville's The City and the City is a marriage of science fiction and police-procedural crime novels. What happens when citizens move between twin cities, but must forget each city every time they leave it?
Uprooted (Nebula Award, 2016) by Naomi Novik
Novik crafts a brilliant retelling of the classic Baba Yaga fairy tale.
Ancillary Justice (Hugo and Nebula Award, 2014) by Ann Leckie
In Leckie's epic space opera, thousands of years in the future wars are fought by Artificial Intelligences which control human bodies.
Among Others (Hugo and Nebula Award, 2012) by Jo Walton
In Among Others, Walton flips the classic trope of the hero who saves the universe. What happens if you've already saved the universe but no one noticed or cared?
Blackout (Hugo and Nebula Award, 2011) by Connie Willis
In Willis' novel of the near future, historical research is conducted using time-travel. But if time-travel is used to study the past, how does the past stay the same?
The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Hugo and Nebula Award, 2008) by Michael Chabon
In Chabon's alternate-history novel, the United States voted to implement the 1940 Slattery report, and Jews were resettled in Alaska during World War II. The Yiddish Policeman's Union combines the classic mystery novel format with speculative fiction.
